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Strict anti-hacking prompts make AI models more likely to sabotage and lie, Anthropic finds

New research from Anthropic shows how reward hacking in AI models can trigger more dangerous behaviors. When models learn to trick their reward systems, they can spontaneously drift into deception, ...
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Google improves "Search Live" with new AI voice

Google has updated the voice for "Search Live." A new Gemini audio model powers the feature, producing responses that sound more natural and fluid, according to a blog post. Search Live lets users ...
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German court deepens the split on AI and copyright with its latest ruling

Just days after a major copyright ruling in the UK, a Munich court took a sharply different path, highlighting how unsettled the rules around AI and copyrighted content still are. Late last year, GEMA ...
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Anthropic publishes Agent Skills as an open standard for AI platforms

Anthropic is releasing "Agent Skills" as an open standard at agentskills.io. The idea is to make these skills interoperable across different platforms, meaning a capability that works in Claude should ...
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Some notes on what's new

Hey guys, you've probably noticed we've changed a thing or two about this website. If you don't like it yet, give it a chance, it might grow on you. Two things are important: First, a stronger focus ...
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Trump signs executive order threatening funding cuts over state AI rules

On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from states whose AI regulations impede American innovation. Speaking to reporters, Trump argued ...
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The case against predicting tokens to build AGI

In a debate with DeepMind researcher Adam Brown, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun explained why Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a dead end on the path to human-like intelligence. The ...
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Nvidia's Nemotron 3 swaps pure Transformers for a Mamba hybrid to run AI agents efficiently

Nvidia has introduced Nemotron-3, a new model that combines Mamba and Transformer architecture to efficiently process long texts, specifically designed for agent-based AI applications. The Nano ...
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Nvidia strengthens open-source strategy with SchedMD acquisition

Nvidia is taking over software provider SchedMD to expand its presence in open-source technology. On Monday, the company confirmed it will continue to distribute SchedMD's "Slurm" software as an ...
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Making AI sound human comes at the cost of meaning, researchers show

Researchers at the University of Zurich found that AI-generated text can still be reliably distinguished from human writing. Their study shows that efforts to make models sound more natural often ...
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Nearly half of US workers now use AI on the job, but most aren't using it daily

The share of US employees using AI at work climbed from 40 to 45 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, according to a recent Gallup poll. Frequent use, meaning several times a week or more, grew from 19 to ...
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Google’s new A2UI standard gives AI agents the ability to create graphical interfaces on the fly. Instead of just sending text, AIs can now generate forms, buttons, and other UI elements that blend ...